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"A two-time Aurora Award-winning semi-pro SF fiction zine devoted to inspiring and promoting beginning Canadian SF writers."

"A two-time Aurora Award-winning semi-pro SF fiction zine devoted to inspiring and promoting beginning Canadian SF writers."

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Send us your best but less intimidating

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  • Payment

    Yes

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    Yes

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    No

  • Provides contributor copies

    No

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    No

Accepted genres

2 genres

Fiction

Max words: 3000

Max pieces: 2

I prefer Science Fiction over Fantasy, though of course SF can include fantasy elements, so I’m flexible. Weird Fantasy would intrigue me. A...

Poetry

Max lines: 60

Max pieces: 5

Poems must be original and not previously published. No simultaneous submissions to other markets, please.

Fiction

Max words: 3000

Max pieces: 2

I prefer Science Fiction over Fantasy, though of course SF can include fantasy elements, so I’m flexible. Weird Fantasy would intrigue me. A...

Poetry

Max lines: 60

Max pieces: 5

Poems must be original and not previously published. No simultaneous submissions to other markets, please.

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Cover letters

Coming soon! Advice from editors on what your cover letter and bio should look like!

Eligibility

Creators from a specific location / ethnic group

Formatting

Coming soon! All the Times New Romans and double spaces!

Rights for published work

Coming soon! First, third, none, all the rights!

Additional info

Contributors must be Canadian, or at least resident in Canada. Short stories and poems can be Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror. Payment. Short stories: $10 for one thousand words or less. One cent a word for stories 1,000 words to 3,000 words in length. Poem (regardless of length–maximum 60 lines): $10. Cover art (colour or B&W): $40. In the case of short stories I do accept both reprints and multiple submissions, and don’t care if simultaneously submitted elsewhere, but this does not apply to poems. CURRENTLY CLOSED to short story submissions and closed to poetry submissions. Always open for cover art.

About the Magazine

Founded in 2016 | Canada

Masthead

We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)

R. Graeme Cameron

Editor-in-Chief

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